The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 16, 1953, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, January 16, 1953 FLASH GORDON YES, FLASH GORDON! YOU ARE SEEING YOURSELF IN THE FUTURE... AND DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE IT WONDER IF HE CAN FEEL ANYTHING! ITWERE} | 1°LLTOSS THIS CIGARETTE LIGHTER A AT HIN -~ NOUR GREAT-GREAT- UNCLE THADDEUS |ICOLLECTED MANY IN HIS EB Rove BUSINESS! CHORES TODAY, SNUFFY=- I GOT TO DUST A LEETLE DAB, ee. CHECKERS, TH oot WASH UP RIDDLES ? CHOP SOME KINDLIN' WOOD ILL BE--2 HE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE IT! SLICE IT ANY WAY YOU LIKE, THAD- DEUS..,HE WAS STILL THE KIND OF GENTLEMAN WHO WOULD HAVE BEI MATT 4~YOu'vVE SIMPLY GOT TO GIVE HER uP THAT CUTE Trick 1 ASS Met AT THE REALLY ROCKS Me! ik Ry Ne OE Te C5: ‘ ~=EY, io THIS VERY MINUTE 2 THE DANCE / You’RE ONLY NO, BUT HER STEADY is.” You SAW WHAT HAPPENED AT ASKING FOR TROUBLE 2— The World Today By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (®—It was to be Secretary of State Acheson’s last news conference. The small audi- torium of the State Department was almost filled with reporters and commentators who had been dealing with him since he became secretary four years ago. He came in, looking like a man who had had a good night’s sleep. He seemed at ease, as usual, but with an almost birdlike alertness, which is also usual with him. Noth- ing about him suggested the extra- ordinary pressure of the four years unless perhaps it was his hair. It had turned very gray. As he sat down at a small table, facing the newsmen, the photo- graphers knelt on the floor. They said: “Start talking.’ He looked at them as if to say: “‘To whom?” Crouching closer, they said: “Talk over our heads.” Acheson grinned: “Oh, I: couldn’t talk over your heads.” Everyone laughed. Everyone in the room, some time or other, had heard Acheson accused of talking down to people, particularly to congressmen, with whom his rela- tions could hardly be worse. Acheson, of course, might argue that he merely talked on the level he was used to while respectfully assuming his listeners were’on the same level. And among his inti- mates he is said to be a lively man with a taste for earthy lan- guage. But this part of him could not be detected in his sometimes mildly humorous but always un- bending public appearances. No matter what the reason for his public austerity — a natural condition, a deliberate attitude or a deep self-consciousness—he was never, to his misfortune, able to establish a warm and personal link with Congress. He happened to be in the State Department at a time of severe national anxiety over communism and had had a major part in shap- ing some of the most far-reaching postwar policies, such as arms for Greece and Turkey, the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic Pact, arms for jurope. But while the European fortress was being cemented he was at- tacked for not having done enough in Asia, where communism, after overrunning China, finally erupted in the Korean War. It is questionable that even Pres- ident Truman would consider Acheson’s judgment always beyond dispute. Acheson has said little in his own behalf. He has shown enormous patience under attack. He may have felt patience was necessary for a man in his position and his dilemma. He told foreign service officers last week that the State Department’s critics were ‘‘thor- oughly wicked” and “in my judg- ment once something really evil is let loose in the world it cannot be eradicated overnight without patience and effort.” As for what he told his final news conference: He read a pre- pared, and rather literary, fare- well, replied to some questions, and expressed optimism about the future. Food Ration System Breaks Down In Prague VIENNA, Austria “®}—Commun- ist Czechoslovakia deprived thou- sands of former upper and middle class persons of their food ration cards Thurs. in an effort to end the nation’s catastrophic food shortage. The measure was described by Radio Prague as the first step in a complete reorganization of the nation’s food and clothing distri- bution system. A reorganization has been made necessary because, throughout the country, meat, bread, milk and eggs have been unobtainable on ‘ration cards. Reports from Prague indicate an almost complete break- down of the nation's rationing sys- tem. WANT AN ANTIQUE POST CARD, ANYONE? GREENFIELD, 0. (—The post- mistress at neighboring South Sal- em, Mrs. Minnie Hester, was sort- ing the mail when she noticed a post card addressed to Mrs. Charles Matthews Mrs. Matthews died several years ago. Mrs. Hester looked over the card, written by a niece of Mrs. Mat- thews, and noticed it was post- marked from Austin, O., 10 miles away. The card bore the date: 27, 1909. May By Roy Gotto/| THE CISCO KID | | HEY, SHERIFF, CSCO CANT RIDE with PROMISE OF DELIGHT Chapter 8 {[RERE was a frenzy of tooting from outside, and Anthea shot up to look out of the window. The big cream car was there with Joe at the wheel, tooting a gay sum- mons on the horn, and making signs for Anthea to come out. She sprang for her feet, her face alight and eager. “Mother! It’s Joe! I believe he’s got some news for me. I must go. He must have heard that his father is coming back. I may not be back for din- ner. I'll let you know.” She shot out of the door, and Marian Grainger called angrily, “Anthea . . . come back, at once.’ But Anthea was already: out of the house. Marian stood for a moment, watching them while they met, their faces alight and eager, while Joe pushed open the car door, holding out his hand to help An- thea in. Something in his face, in the way he looked at Anthea, made her turn away, her hands ewistng together with anguish and helpless exasperation, pacing the room with swift, angry, im- patient steps. Hardly had the sound of Joe’s car died away when Mr. Grainger turned’ his neat dark-blue road- ster into the drive. Marian paused in her angry pacing. He got out of the car, leaving it in the driveway, and walked slowly across to the front of the house, and stood sorting his keys at the front door until he found the right one. There was some- thing elderly about his slow de- liberation that she had not no- ticed before. Her hands tightened together as she watched him. He was only fifty-five. He followed her into the dining room. She opened the sideboard and took out some bottles and set them on the silver tray, took out two sherry glasses and put them on the sideboard. “Would you-like By Mary Howard “Thank you, my dear! Where’s Anthea?” “Out with that boy from hext door again. That's the third time this week. She’s really serious about going to France with them as his father’s secretary.” There was a brief silence. Mr. Grainger thoughtfully swilled the sherry round in his glass, and | then finished it quickly. “Well, Anthea’s twenty-one, Marian. She's always been an ex- ceedingly good and obedient child. It won't hurt her to meet new people and get about a bit, and rely on her own judgment.’ “It's not just that,” said Ma- rian impatiently, “It’s that she’s changed. These people appear from nowhere, no one knows any- thing about them, and it seems as though Anthea completely loses her head and thinks of some- thing else. Not just this Joe, but the idea of them, and particularly of the father .. . this Mario Car- lotti. Because they’re in films, be- cause they’ve traveled, they're different, exciting, and she can’t think of anything else. She flies off before her dinner without even troubling to change, and I believe she'd fly off to the moon if one of them suggested it!” 'HE went out into the kitchen, and camd back with the hot dishes on a tray. She set the dishes on the table mats, silent and preoccupied, took her place opposite him and began to serve the food. “By the way,” she said sudden- ly, “I did say I could manage with my summer dresses this year, but I don’t think I can after all. Can you let me have some money?” “Of course, my dear. I'll give you a check this evening.” “About fifty pounds?” He glanced up, a little surprised, for she did not usually ask for so much, although she always bought good things. She went on, care- a drink, Gregory? Dinner is al- most ready.” WASHINGTON # — A decisive meeting -- involving Solomon - like rulings--will be neld in New York Tuesday on how best to make scarce supplies of gamma globulin do the most good in next summer's polio season. The National Research Council (NRC) is expected to recommend a plan for federal distribution of one million free doses of the prom- ising paralytic polio preventive -- all that will be available by June 30 for a nation which has 46 mil- lion children under age 15. Gamma globulin, which has pos- sibilities for temporary protection against polio paralysis, is not the final answer to the disease, doc- tors say~but it is considered the best stop-gap for use until a long- lasting protective vaccine is de- veloped. The meeting will bring to a climax a series of discussions on the thorny problem of distribution which have been in progress since last summer when the dramatic promise of gamma globulin first was demonstrated. It was learned by the Associated Press that whatever plan is re- commended by the NRC--a quasi- governmental agency -- the direct allocation of supplies of gamma globulin to individual recipients will be the responsibility of health officers of the various states. Gamma globulin is derived from blood. The one ion free doses which will be available for use in the polio fight by June 320 will come from blood donated by Am- ericans through the blood collec- tion program of the Red Cross. It involves a lengthy process and | are only a few manufacturers equipped to do it. | The National Foundation for In- fantile Paralysis estimates that in any given summer approximately two million children are exposed ito polio in epidemic areas. The expected supply of gamma globy- | lin would thus be sufficient to give a single shot of the material to half of them. | Even on that basis, any distri- jbution and allocation plan will! necessarily involve a choice be- tween children -- a decision that virtually parallels that of King Solomon when faced with the pleas fof two women over a disputed j child. | And the availability of one mil- lion doses will not necessarily |mean that one million children will get it. | The potential protection of: the jmaterial against paralytic polo lasts only four or five weeks, a jcording to present evidence. & HATE TO SAY THIS YOUR PARD ARE Si fully serving the peas, not look- ing at him, watching what she one of the things which may be decided at next week’s meeting is this: Should a single shot be given to a certain number of irdividuals- with a chance of protecting them for only four or five weeks -- or should more than one shot be giv: en to a lesser number, with a chance of protecting them fully for the entire summer polio season? Another important question which will confront the National Research Council conferees is this: Since some adults -- as well as children--are susceptible *to polio, to what extent should a choice be made between children and adults. For example, what about pregnant women in an area hit/by polio? Among many primitive tribes, women are able to carry heavier loads and carry them farther than men. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1, Greek letter 4. Pack down 8, Goddess af discord. 12. Edge 13. Bacchanalian cry. . Part played 5. Small fish juiet 35. Spoken Uncanny |. Three-handed City in Texas 9. Poems 53. . Also 54, Kind of duck 55. Leaping al FI CAN was doing. “Its a lot of money, isn’t eRe I really ought to have a smart light coat as well. I haven’t anything for town wear, and they really are rather expen- sive. The prices have all gone up again, but I prefer to buy some- thing really good while I en about it.” “Why, of course,” he said sr “I was just a little gi s that’s all, I'm very glad, Marian. In my opinion you do without far too many things. The telephone rang and he went out into the hall to answer it, He came back almost at once, saying, “That was Anthea, She says she will have some dinner out with Joe and not to wait up for her.” He gave Marian a almost apprehensive glance, but _ made =~ re] ay ond ee mt over her p! wi scrutable, and rather pale. . avement round Blimbed in by Joe’s side, her eyes shining. ane. was Daddy, thank good- ness,” she said. “He doesn’t mind what I do. .. or rather he thinks T'm sensible enough to take care yo appears to think I'm just a great big wolf out to eat up her ewe-lamb. Anthea shook her head. “T don’t think so. I don’t know what she thinks . .. or why she is like she is with you. She got think she can’t keep you in order.” “I beg your pardon,” said Joe indignantly. it d’you take me for?’ She said, “Well, you are a bit preayer ie know. Mother likes things a people she can man- age. She’s not y. but of what I id perhaps she thi courage me.” “But you like being encour- aged. don't you?” (Te be continued) Plan For Distribution Of Gamma Globulin NEGRO PASTOR IS | ATTACKED IN BOSTON BOSTON w—The Rev, Alonza Gaskin, 45, Negro pastor, was at- tacked and robbed of $61 late yes- terday, not far from the spot where Rabbi Jacob I. Zuber, 54, was killed in a $7 robbery New Year's eve. y The attack ori Gaskin came as a grand jury was hearing evidence on hoodlumism, violence and cor- ruption, Thesgrand jury investigation was ordered by Dist. Atty. Garrett “-rewa wg a result of Rabbi Zuber’s slaying and other evidence that sug @angs are making streets unsafe, Althongh fish often have tongues, they have no muscles, and in some fish, teeth are grown on the tongue. 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